The Lahore High Court (LHC) has granted interim bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan in the case of interference in public affairs outside Zaman Park.
Lahore: LHC grants Imran Khan interim bail in Zaman Park case. The Public Prosecutor opposed the prayer of PTI counsel who asked for bail on the ground that his client Imran Khan was in jail and previously regularly appeared before the court in the Zaman Park case.
The case was registered at the Race Course Police Station for obstructing the execution of the PTI founder’s warrant arrest.
LHC Justice Amjad Rafiq heard the interim bail of the PTI founder and during the hearing, the lawyer of the PTI founder, Barrister Salman Safdar, said that the PTI founder had been regularly appearing in the court before his arrest, but as he was sentenced and was in jail.
The lawyer took the stand that the court should grant bail in the case of interference in the government.
The public prosecutor opposed the application, however, the court granted bail for a sum of five lakhs.
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Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir was blunt. Addressing army officials during his visit to Lahore Garrison on May 9, Munir said, “There can be no compromise or deal with the planners and architects of this dark chapter in our history.”
Munir was referring to the events of May 9, 2023, when Pakistan erupted in violence and a subsequent crackdown after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested while appearing before the Islamabad High Court for a hearing into a case of corruption.
Thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party workers responded to Khan’s arrest by storming the streets in various cities, demanding his immediate release and going on a rampage in which state buildings and military installations were targeted. Angry supporters in Lahore targeted the residence of a top military commander, torching the building. Another group of protesters raided the gates of the Pakistani military’s headquarters in Rawalpindi.
While Khan was released two days later, he was arrested again in August. The police had by that time arrested thousands of PTI workers and party leaders. An already tense relationship between Pakistan’s military and the PTI ruptured, descending into public hostility.
Now, a year later, that broken relationship continues to strain a political system that is also struggling to manage an economic crisis striking at the everyday lives of Pakistan’s 240 million people, analysts say. The military, which felt directly challenged — even attacked — on May 9, 2023, remains Pakistan’s most powerful institution. Meanwhile, the PTI, which emerged as Pakistan’s most popular political force in February national elections, even though its talismanic leader was behind bars and despite a crackdown against it, faces questions over its future.
“It is no secret that our relationship with military leadership has frazzled and there is significant mistrust on both sides,” Taimur Jhagra, a senior PTI leader and former minister in the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told Al Jazeera. “This will have to be resolved because in no country can the largest political force and strongest institution in the state stand against each other.”
LHC grants Imran Khan interim bail in Zaman Park case
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